War Memories

In 2012 I undertook a project for Kings College with James Bressor to interview (James) and photograph (me) Kings College and Guys Hospital alumni who shared their memories of the 2nd World War.

It was a very humbling experience. We visited Shyam Sarwal (pictured here), with his wife, in London. He told us of setting off from Bombay for Liverpool by ship just after the war had started. When they got to Gibraltar the Captain told all the passengers to eat as much food as they could as the ship had no protection and would likely be sunk. They made it. He described his life with his wife as one long adventure. She died three weeks after our visit and he followed her two weeks later.